2. Emergency Planning
Calling 911
Falls
Fire Safety

3. • Good safety precautions can help prevent
falls, fires, and other emergencies. Keep
appliances in good repair, practice personal
safety, and prepare a plan for emergencies.
• Caregivers need to know how to respond to
emergencies and how to help prevent them.

4. • Emergency Plan:
– Every consumer should
have an Emergency Plan.
– It should be posted in an
obvious place such as the
refrigerator.
– The Plan should be kept
up to date with current
medications in case your
consumer is unable to
give the paramedics the
information in an
emergency.

5. • General Guidelines:
– STAY CALM. You help your
consumer just by your calm
demeanor. It can give
reassurance.
– Yell for someone to assist
you if possible
– DO NOT LEAVE your
consumer unless it is to call
911. Then return immediately.
– Keep your consumer’s airway
open.

6. If your consumer is not responding and not
breathing:
• Yell for help. Have someone call 911, or you leave the
consumer briefly and call 911.
• Don’t leave the consumer alone except to call for help.
• Begin a CPR assessment and procedure.
• Do not stop CPR until help has arrived.
• Take medicine or medicine bottles with you to the emergency
room.
Call your supervisor after the paramedics have been
called and your consumer is no longer in danger.

7. If your consumer is not responding but is breathing:
• Call 911 for emergency assistance.
• Place the person on his/her side if possible. This helps to
keep the person’s airway open.
• If you can’t get emergency assistance, take your consumer to
the nearest emergency center.
• Take medicine or medicine bottles with you to the emergency
room.
Call your supervisor after the paramedics have been
called and your consumer is no longer in danger.

8. • Emergency situations can be very stressful for
everyone involved. It is important that you remain as
calm as possible.
• Then get help as quickly as possible.
• Individuals with disabilities and those who are
elderly are vulnerable.
• They are more likely to injure themselves in the
home. They may require immediate medical
attention.
• It is very possible a situation may arise where the
caregiver must make an emergency 911 call

9. Some situations that would require you to call 911 would be:
• Chest pain
• Shortness of breath
• Suspected heart attack or stroke
• Suspected heat stroke
• Non-responsiveness
• Confusion that is not common with consumer
• Consumer falls and cannot get up
• Fire
• Safety issues, such as gas leaks.

10. Description of procedure:
• Stay calm. The calmer you remain, the quicker you
will be able to get help. Take a deep breath and
proceed.
• Assess your consumer for responsiveness.
Ensure your consumer is safe in the environment.
• Call 911. If possible, use a land line phone.
• State the nature of the emergency in plain,
concise tone.
• State the location of the emergency with the
nearest cross streets.

11. Description of procedure: (Continued)
• Give your name and telephone number
• Remain on the line until dispatch tells you to hang
up.
• Render first aid as needed to the consumer.
• Stay alert to your surroundings, staying with
consumer, rendering assistance. Reassure and
calm your consumer until the emergency medical
services (EMS) team arrives.
• When paramedics arrive answer relevant
questions asked by them.
• Notify your supervisor as soon as possible

12. • To make living areas safer, the elderly and
individuals with disabilities should:
– Remove tripping hazards such as throw rugs and
clutter in walkways.

13. Responding to a fall:
• If you are able, when your consumer starts
to fall, attempt to lower your consumer
gently to the floor. Take care not to injure
yourself in the process.
• Have your consumer lie still while you look
for any injuries.
• If your consumer is not complaining of any
pain, you may assist your consumer in
getting up.

14. If your consumer has already fallen when you find
him/her, or is complaining of pain after falling:
• Do not move the person. Make the person comfortable without
moving any affected body parts.
• Call 911. the paramedics will evaluate the consumer when they arrive.
• Call your supervisor for any further instructions.
If your consumer is not responsive, call 911 immediately

15. Three key elements of
a fire:
• Oxygen: It is always present
in the air
• Heat: It is present in sources
such as heaters, stoves,
appliances, electrical
connections, fireplaces and
lighted cigarettes.
• Fuel: Anything combustible-
like cloth, paper, wood,
upholstery, and gasoline-
that will burn when exposed
to heat.

16. A fire needs all three To extinguish a fire you
elements to ignite and need to take at least one
burn. of the elements away.
You can put out a very If there is a fire in a
small flame with a heavy cooking pot or a garbage
blanket. can, put a lid on it.
Without fresh oxygen,
Use a fire extinguisher.
the fire will go out.

17. Fire extinguishers:
• Fire extinguishers are
categorized by the type
of fire they put out.
• Class A, B, or C fires
• If only one extinguisher
is available, make sure
that is an ABC type that
will put out most types
of fires.

18. • How to use a fire extinguisher:
1. Ensure consumer is safe and free from possible
injury/smoke damage.
2. Determine if the fire is fightable
3. Do not fight the fire if
1. The fire is spreading
2. The type or size of the extinguisher is wrong
3. The fire is too large
4. If you do not know how to use a fire extinguisher
4. Retrieve the fire extinguisher.
5. Use the P.A.S.S. acronym

19. • P.A.S.S. Acronym:
1. Pull the pin from the handle area at the top of the fire
extinguisher and remove the hose from the clamp (if
applicable).
2. Aim the hose nozzle at the base of the fire ( you
should be at least 10 ft. from the fire).
3. Squeeze the lever in order to release the chemical.
4. Sweep the hose nozzle from side to side at the base
of the fire (you will have about 10 seconds of
extinguishing power).

20. Using oxygen:
• Oxygen should not be flowing near open flames
or a heat source.
• Don’t smoke near oxygen. A consumer using
oxygen should not smoke with tubing in place
and oxygen on.
• Oxygen should be at least three feet from an
electric space heater. Space heaters should be
watched all the time.
• Put up signs stating that oxygen is in use and
asking visitors not to smoke.
• Secure oxygen tanks so that they cannot be
knocked over or be bumped into. Strap the tank
to a closet wall or into the backseat of a car in
the upright position.

21. • This concludes the presentation on
Emergency's & Safety.
• Please take the test to complete this training.